WILSON, N.C. (AP) — State health officials say two additional cases of Legionnaires' disease have been confirmed in Wilson, raising the count to seven. The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services identified the two cases at Longleaf Neuro-Medical Treatment Center. Legionnaires' disease cannot be spread from person to person.

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — UnitedHealthcare has become the third insurer to announce plans to sell federally subsidized health insurance in North Carolina. The health insurer notified the N.C. Department of Insurance that it intends to sell subsidized coverage in the state under the Affordable Care Act.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has agreed to review the red wolf program, raising the possibility that the 27-year experiment to restore the rare predators in eastern North Carolina may come to an end. The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission asked the federal agency this month to "determine the appropriateness of continuing the experimental (wolf) program."

GASTONIA, N.C. (AP) — Police in Gastonia have charged a baby sitter with felony child abuse after a 15-month-old was scalded by hot water in a bathtub. Police say 24-year-old Cassandra Kristen Ann Willard was supposed to be watching the baby and four other children when the child was burned June 8.